When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

Fiddle players are often at the center of bluegrass music, taking on the role of the lead instrument. Before Bill Monroe became the so-called Father of Bluegrass, he was influenced by other musicians ...

CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota — The strings on his fiddle dance with the bow while Gene Van Alstine waltzes with his past. On a summer afternoon, Gene plays fiddle solo in his workshop a few steps from a ...

Twenty-two years ago, Dan Hochhalter played Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" on fiddle at his high school talent show. "The band was thrown together last-minute and we barely had a ...

Jul. 5—My main gig is playing fiddle and singing harmony with Charlie Woods and Deep Hollow along with my husband Craig Burletic on bass, Charlie Woods on guitar and vocals, and Josh Hensley on banjo.